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Excavations.ie

2016:084 - DSF, Grange Castle Business Park, Dublin 22, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin

Site name: DSF, Grange Castle Business Park, Dublin 22

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 14E0453

Author: Neil O'Flanagan

Site type: Bronze Age cremation pits & medieval corn-drying kiln

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 704096m, N 731046m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.319433, -6.437614

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Excavations were carried out on behalf of Sisk & Sons Ltd during the course of 2015-16, yielding a corn-drying kiln, medieval field boundaries, and two clusters of cremation pits.

The kiln was dumbbell shaped, 6.06m in length, 1.4m wide across its flue, and cut to a depth of 0.48m. The fill included clays that appear to have originally formed part of the roofing of the kiln, indicating that the roof collapsed after its use, to be followed by a gradual natural accumulation.

The kiln lay adjacent to a pair of parallel ditches, one of which extended to 38m within the monitored area, with a depth of 0.25m maximum.

Some distance to the south, a cluster of 5 cremation pits came to light, with burnt bone within the pits evident from the surface. The pits were cut to a depth of 0.32m maximum, and a diameter of 0.37m maximum. Further to the south, another cluster of 4 cremation pits, including a shallow oval-shaped pit, measuring 0.57m in length, and 0.07 in depth, and another circular pit 0.48m in diameter, and 0.14m in depth. Some of the pits appear to have been ‘capped’, or sealed.

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